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Review: Ten Technologies to Save the Planet by Chris Goodall

By Fred Pearce

30 December 2008

HERE is a simple truth: there are technical fixes for climate change. We have viable technologies that can deliver the energy we need without warming the planet. They are not expensive and they don’t require us to abandon our ways of life, but they do require some reorganisation of our economies. Another simple truth is that there is no one fix. So Chris Goodall‘s brilliantly concise and clear-eyed account of the top 10 – from covering the Sahara in solar farms to burning wood in your boiler – has it about right: 10 technologies could save the planet.

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